S/4 IT Business Analyst/Project Manager - Clinical Supply ICSM

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Role Title: S/4 IT Business Analyst/Project Manager - Clinical Supply ICSM Location: Chennai We are one purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world. AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large-scale transformation programme – Axial. The Axial Programme will be powered by S/4HANA a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system which will be implemented right across the organisation and will provide our business with standardised processes, enhanced financial management, common data and real time reporting, transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain - from bench to patient. The new system will be used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This is a once in a generation programme for AstraZeneca and will shape our ways of working globally for many years to come. The Axial programme needs the best talent to work in it. Whether it’s the technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout. We are aiming to deliver a world class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our global company. This programme will provide AZ with a competitive edge, to the benefit of our employees, customers and patients. This blended position is primarily a Business Analysis role with supporting Project Management responsibilities within the Axial S/4HANA programme. You will be responsible for solution design for a defined capability area, such as Clinical Supply, Finance, Operations, or Enabling Units, while supporting end-to-end delivery activities. You will drive fit-to-standard adoption of SAP best practices, ensure integrated architecture across domains, establish robust data and integration design, and maintain alignment with AstraZeneca compliance standards, while also contributing to planning, RAID, and governance to support delivery on time and within budget. The role requires comfort working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, including SAP Activate. As a key member of the wider SAP S/4HANA IT Design Team, you will help define the IT solution that enables our global standardised business processes. This role will be aligned to a process within one of the Clinical Supply areas under the Enterprise Process Owner (EPO) domain. During the global process design phase, you will be accountable for the solution design and will act as the central point of coordination for defining the integrated solution. This includes ensuring alignment across business process definition, SAP solution design, and SAP data object definition. Within your process area, you will ensure that the global standard solution is fully and accurately documented and tested in line with project standards, and you will represent and advocate for the design through the required governance forums. You will work closely with other IT Business Analysts, Product Managers, and specialists across the design team to make sure solutions are effectively integrated into the broader AstraZeneca global standard design. This will also involve collaboration with SMEs from external partners to ensure the AZ solution adopts standard, groundbreaking technology in support of the design. You will also be an active contributor to the wider design forums across AstraZeneca, ensuring that the global standard design for your capability aligns with the strategic vision for both business and system architecture within your process area. As the programme moves into the deployment phase, you will continue to play a pivotal role in ensuring that localisation requirements for individual functions are appropriately reflected in the solution while preserving the integrity of a fit-to-standard, best-practice design. Throughout the programme, you will remain a key member of the design team and may lead a team of Business Analysts for your capability area. In this capacity, you will guide them in producing solution designs and project documentation, while using your experience and knowledge to help upskill the team in both SAP S/4HANA and the broader AstraZeneca application landscape. What you’ll do • Support the IT solution that underpins the global standard process design for your capability / lead area including any integrations • Support the data team to ensure successful migration / creation of data objects that support the AZ global design across the application landscape • Work closely with the business teams in the process design to ensure alignment with S/4HANA best practice and SAP standard functionality • Understanding of SAP data objects and ability to map to applications interface is key • Able to represent your process domain on senior internal and external forums as required in your capability domain and support setting the strategic direction contributing any solution/technology opportunities • Track and ensure completion of deliverables across every phase of project from initiation to handover to